Summary
Pavel Smirnov is a hands-on Principal Architect and former CTO with over a decade of experience building high-performance, cloud-native and embedded systems across fintech, gaming, IoT and multimedia. He combines deep architecture and SDLC expertise with product and team leadership, having scaled distributed R&D organizations and increased revenues through technical and operational realignment. His background spans Kubernetes and multi-cloud deployments, payment processing and blockchain, plus low-level work on RF energy-harvesting IoT tags and high-throughput real-time communications. Pavel is comfortable moving from research and prototyping to production—founding startups, defining IP and shipping mixed software-hardware products and algorithmic trading systems. Based in Israel, he mentors multidisciplinary teams and applies experimental, data-driven approaches to solve ambiguous problems. A practical innovator, he frequently bridges applied ML/AI with embedded and networking constraints to deliver novel, deployable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Tel Aviv University
BSc Computer Science And Statistics, BSc Computer Science And Statistics at Bar-Ilan University
Hebrew, Russian, Ukrainian, English